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Iran, Iraqi Kurdistan call for enhanced ties
Jan 15, 2019 09:46Iran and Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region have emphasized the importance of expanding bilateral relations in various sectors, particularly in the economic field.
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Iraqi special forces deployed in Kirkuk after Kurdish flag raising triggered tensions
Jan 10, 2019 15:38Iraqi Special Operations Forces have been deployed in the Arab country’s Kirkuk after the flag of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) was raised over a political party headquarters, which revived tensions more than a year after Baghdad seized the disputed northern city from the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters.
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Syrian forces march into Arima village near Kurdish-held Manbij
Dec 25, 2018 16:46Syrian army soldiers, supported by Russian troops, have marched into a village in the country’s northern province of Aleppo, after US-sponsored and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) decided to hand it over to government forces.
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US exempts Iraq in further retreat on Iran sanctions
Nov 07, 2018 11:46Iraq will continue importing electricity and natural gas from Iran under an exemption from US sanctions, the special representative for Iran at the US State Department Brain Hook has said.
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Israeli film dropped from Iraqi Kurdish festival competition
Oct 31, 2018 03:37Authorities in Iraq's northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region have withdrawn an Israeli movie from the annual Duhok International Film Festival “due to regional complications and considerations.”
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‘US incites Iraq’s Kurds to break promise, assault Iranian soil’
Sep 11, 2018 06:01Iran’s top military commander says the US has been provoking the terrorists based in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region over the past year to launch assaults against Iranian soil despite their earlier promises not to do so.
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Three killed as gunmen storm govt. building in Erbil
Jul 23, 2018 08:51Kurdish security forces have killed three gunmen who stormed the governorate building in the city of Erbil in Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan and took hostages.
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Iraq starts deploying forces in Sinjar after Turkey’s threats against PKK
Mar 31, 2018 14:49Iraq has started deploying forces in the country’s northwestern Sinjar region after Turkey threatened to enter the area to attack Kurdish militants.
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Iraqi Kurdistan's airports reopen for intl. flights following PM's order
Mar 15, 2018 16:26Airports in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq have been reopened to international air traffic.
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Iraqi PM reopens Kurdistan airports to international flights
Mar 13, 2018 11:09Iraq has ended a nearly six-month air blockade imposed on its Kurdistan after the semi-autonomous region held a controversial referendum on secession last September.